SENIOR gardaí will object to any compassionate release sought by members of the McCarthy Dundon gang for the funeral of their mother who died in a road collision in London, it has emerged.

TRAGEDY struck Euro lottery millionaire Dolores McNamara last night when her brother-in-law died in a caravan fire.

Five Limerick men were tonight jailed for life after being convicted of the murder of Limerick crime boss Kieran Keane and the attempted murder of his nephew Owen Treacy.

The trial of five Limerick men for the murder of Kieran Keane and the attempted murder of his nephew opened amid tight security in Dublin's Cloverhill courthouse today.